I got 7 out of 10 and it did not tell me I need to read more books by men.
Spike: Heard what happened up top, offing your dad and all. Don't know if you know this, but, uh…I killed my mum. Actually, I'd already killed her, and then she tried to shag me, so I had to-- Wesley: Thank you. I'm…very comforted.
'Lineage'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
megan walker - Jun 02, 2011 1:52:13 pm PDT #15051 of 28690
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Ginger - Jun 02, 2011 1:53:28 pm PDT #15052 of 28690
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
VS Naipaul, Nicholas Sparks and Salman Rushdie write like women. Neener, neener. Also, their mothers dress them funny.
Amy - Jun 02, 2011 1:54:14 pm PDT #15053 of 28690
Because books.
I looked Naipaul up in Wiki and he seems like a real charmer, too.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 02, 2011 2:32:43 pm PDT #15054 of 28690
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I got 4 out of 10. But 2 of the 4 I had read already, so I knew the author.
Polter-Cow - Jun 02, 2011 2:44:42 pm PDT #15055 of 28690
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'd read two of the books but didn't recognize the paragraphs.
Kate P. - Jun 02, 2011 5:06:39 pm PDT #15056 of 28690
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Anyhow, I talked myself out of at least three correct answers based not on the texts but on what I thought the test-writers thought I would think of the texts.
Yeah, I did that for a bunch of them too. I hope the test results show that most people think V.S. Naipaul writes like a woman.
Kat - Jun 02, 2011 5:14:35 pm PDT #15057 of 28690
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I had 7 out of 10. Nicholas Sparks DEFINITELY writes like a woman.
Typo Boy - Jun 02, 2011 5:17:30 pm PDT #15058 of 28690
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I remember P.Anderson explaining when the rumors first came out that Tiptree could not be a woman. Her style and knowledge of the way men thought made it inconceivable.
Liese S. - Jun 02, 2011 5:52:57 pm PDT #15059 of 28690
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I failed the test. I got 4. I also have a Naipaul book that I hate.
askye - Jun 02, 2011 5:57:57 pm PDT #15060 of 28690
Thrive to spite them
I failed the test, I guessed Sparks as woman. And also I thought the stupid guy who inspired the test was a female writer.
Tonight I discovered that Community College of Vermont offers a class " The Vampire in Literature, Culture & Film". I am going to take that class.